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NeverWare has built a Chromium OS based image to be
easily installed, named CloudReady. Its home edition is free. It is available
for both 32 and 64 bit. The image will work on most machines.

Considerables

Boot options: Dual boot with Windows (>XP), or Standalone.

Users: The user added at first is going to be the owner of the install, so it
cannot be removed. Another users can be added too but those can be easily
removed too.

Local storage: Everything under Downloads is locally stored. The whole
content of the local storage is encrypted, so one does not simply put out the
HDD and access its content.

Media: Adobe flash and MP3 codecs can be easily added in the settings. After
doing so music can be played with built in player.

Photos: Image viewer also works at a glance, even editing is available.
However the Gallery application works quite slow on limited hardware, while
e.g., browsing is surprisingly fast.

Development: In Chromium OS developer mode (which is the default in case of
CloudReady), e.g., Ubuntu can be easily installed and chroot-ed by using
crouton, even with the whole Unity
Graphical Interface.

Download

Download NeverWare’s CloudReady image
and Unzip the file to have chromiumos_image.bin.